good article on the implications of the german constitutional ruling on lisbon, and how it may affect supra-national governance in future:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...636706,00.html
OPINION
The Future of European Democracy

By Thomas Darnstädt

Card-carrying Europeans reacted in dismay to a recent far-reaching ruling on the EU's Lisbon Treaty by Germany's Constitutional Court. But the judges have in fact done Europeans a huge service by tackling the issue of how democracy can work in the era of supranational institutions..................................